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Fake beta sign up image taken from the first known phished version of MechScape.

As with all popular games, scammers were quick to take advantage of the public excitement for the advent of MechScape. On January 12, 2009, Richard McLaremy of Los Angeles, California registered www.mechscapebeta.info.[1] The site contained a familiar, RuneScape-like interface, encouraging impatient MechScape fans to log in to the fake beta using their Jagex accounts. Once the registration form was submitted, the site would claim that the registration was full for today, and the user should try again at a later date. Without the user's knowledge, the site would log the entered username and password and then attempt to hijack the victim account.

On 19 March 2009, emails claiming to be from Jagex were sent to a few random RuneScape members with submitted email addresses announcing they have been chosen to test selected weapons on MechScape. This was a scam and people are advised to not follow the link or enter personal details on the website. Jagex never communicates to players through email and will only contact players through the message center on their domain.